Our family had a baby during the big snow storm. She was born December 31, 1968. I remember that they lived on NE 15th and Knott, and Mike tried to drive to Emmanuel Hospital...couldn't make it...got stuck...and they had to walk in the last bit. It took several days for the car to be available again if I recall correctly. But they got a great baby girl out of it all! I also recall a major ice storm. It must have been early January of 1979. We had moved in the summer of 1978 and had a side yard with a magnificent weeping willow that took up the majority of a buildable lot. I loved it. Then came the ice storm. I think I remember being "in" for the great part of a week, no school, etc. The tree was badly broken by the storm and I had to have it "trimmed." When I next saw the tree there were two or three major branches and one twig. Literally! I almost cried. But, of course, it soon "grew like a weed" and was back to its old self. Kristy

Hi, For those the knew or know Carla Healy her husband Gene died May 28th 2005. I don't know if she is still a member of GFO or not as she may have dropped in order to care for him. He died of Cancer after several years of treatment. For more information go to: http://www.lebanon-express.com/articles/2005/06/01/news/obituaries/obi t06.prt We are going to miss him. Janice & Eddie Healy Janice M. Healy Co-compiler of "Oregon Burial Site Guide" Aloha, Oregon U.S.A. Mailto:[email protected] "Oregon Burial Site Guide" http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/obsg.html Plan ahead for the following conferences: NGS Conference 1-4 June 2005, Nashville Tennessee FGS Conference 9-10 Sept 2005, Salt Lake City Public service site http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ancestors.html

I'm a member of Emily Aulicino's list and she gives us topics weekly and one week it was The Worst Winter. As you can see, that gets people remembering and the stories fly. Here's the condensed version of what I was writing for my kids and grandkids. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We lived in Eugene, Oregon at that time and my children were 5 and 3 years old. My husband had left for San Francisco to attend a court reporting school a few months before and I was holding down the fort and supporting us by working full time for a dentist. In December I discovered that there was the Oregon Genealogical Society right there in Eugene and I was thrilled beyond words. I immediately sent in my dues of $3, sight unseen, and joined the group but I had to wait another month before I could attend my first meeting. A baby sitter was lined up two weeks in advance in anticipation of being in a room full of fellow genealogists but I awoke that 3rd Saturday of the month of January 1969 to see nothing but snow outside. We were in a whiteout and the snow was falling at a steady rate. About 10 AM I called to confirm the address and the person who answered the phone laughed and said the Genealogy Bug really must have bitten me hard. She said that they were expecting about 12 inches of snow that day and the meeting had been called off. I was devastated! By Saturday night we did have 12 inches of lovely dry powder snow. Being a native Oregonian and having lived most of my life in the Willamette Valley I was used to a few big wet flakes that get sloppy and make a mess. Sunday brought another 12 inches and the snow kept coming. By Tuesday morning we had 36 inches of powder snow and the wind made drifts of more than 4 feet. The whole town was shut down. The City of Eugene didn't own one snowplow so they used any sort of earth-moving equipment to move the snow. One clever man chained an old water heater to the front of his pickup truck and cleared his long driveway and those of his neighbors. It really didn't help though because unless you lived on one of the few arterials cleared, you couldn't get out of your own driveway. The skies were blue and everything was beautiful and sparkling white. I dug a "snow fort" on the sidewalk for my little son Scott and it got longer and longer as I cleared the snow. Three feet of snow comes up to the shoulders of a five-year-old boy. Unfortunately his little sister Jill was sick in bed so she couldn't play in the snow. On the fourth day I had to walk several blocks to a little grocery store to buy milk and bread. The trek to the store was frightening because there were only two narrow lanes cleared on West 11th and I had to share to road with slow moving cars on the hard-packed snow which was now ice. In those days backpacks were just used by Boy Scouts and hikers. Ours had a heavy wooden rack and would be almost as heavy as the food I would be bring home. I had settled for a World War 2 war-surplus parachute pack.... minus the chute, which worked perfectly as a grocery bag. I must say it was fun and quite an adventure! I finally got to talk to and visit with neighbors who I had only waved at before. We loved sitting in the window and watching the great piles of snow side off the roofs across the street. Sometimes it was difficult figuring out what I should do because I'd never seen so much billowing white stuff before... but mostly it was fun as long as I didn't have to go anywhere.

I barely recall a big snow storm about 1949. My great grandfather died in Corvallis and my father went to the funeral but we stayed home (must have been too dangerous for little kids?). I remember him coming home late and taking me out in the snow by moonlight. My car broke down on the way to work during the 1969 snow storm. I carried my 3 yr old to call for help and when I returned, I had received a ticket! I went to court and fought the ticket since the roads were piled with snow and no help in sight. The Judge agreed with me! I was in college and working at the Memorial Colisum in 1964. We came out of a hockey game to find our cars buried in snow. I had a 1963 Ford Falcon and I had to take another girl home first. We lived in the hills of Southwest Portland. Cars were left all over hills and I dodged all the cars and made it to the top,and delivered my friend to her house. When I arrived at my house safely, my Dad was FURIOUS that I would have even tried to drive home! As only a teenager would respond, I said, "I made it didn't I?" and off I went to bed! Poor Dad! Patti

>I remember the snow of 1950, too....I had forgotten all about it. >We had just moved to Eugene and we walked 15 blocks to the Mayflower >Theater on the UofO campus. John Wayne was starring in Iwo Jima. >Mama wore longjohns under her circle skirt. I remember this one too, I was a little kid and sick all that winter; dear older sister brought home the mumps, measles, and chicken pox one right after the other. She barely got sick, I nearly died mom said. She and dad went out and built an igloo as the snow was so deep and just the right moisture, this was in Marysville Washington that time. I got to go out just long enough to have my picture taken with it and then rushed back into the house. What a bummer that was, I still love snow so long as I don't have to drive in it. I am with Carole I don't do snow or ice. Thanks for the fun stories, Janice Janice M. Healy Co-compiler of "Oregon Burial Site Guide" Aloha, Oregon U.S.A. Mailto:[email protected] "Oregon Burial Site Guide" http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/obsg.html Plan ahead for the following conferences: NGS Conference 1-4 June 2005, Nashville Tennessee FGS Conference 9-10 Sept 2005, Salt Lake City Public service site http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ancestors.html

Corvallis had 3 feet of snow. When they plowed the downtown streets, they plowed into the middle lane so for weeks until the snow melted you could only switch at the corner, and had to decide a block ahead if you were in the right lane for your turn at the next corner. Portland had quite a bit of snow just before Christmas in 1964. I remember that it started snowing on us as I came home for Christmas break. That was the year that it warmed up very fast after Christmas and there was major flooding, especially in Northern California. Nedra > 1969 sounds right. I was a junior in high school. The Rose City buses stopped > running before they let us out of school! To this day I don't remember snow > that > deep here in Portland. A neighbor boy met me halfway home with a sled and > pulled > me home! > > [email protected] wrote: > According to the website I found on the National Weather Service Forecast > Office for Portland (which lists all the major snowstorms) the year was 1969 - > January 25 - 31. Most of the valley floor got two to three feet of snow. > Eugene got the incredible amount of forty-seven inches for the month of January, > about thirty-four inches coming during this storm. Coos, Lane and Douglas had > the most snow but Salem had about a foot too. > > I remember how awful it was - we had a young woman with us from Lebanon who > drove a Volkswagon bug to a meeting in Salem. It was literally buried under a > huge snowdrift on Front Street here in Salem and it was many days before she > could get it out. A friend with chains on his car managed to bring her here > and she stayed with us for quite a few days. She also could not drive her > Volkswagon bug on the freeway back to Eugene because it would just get "high > centered" because of the snow in the center of the tire tracks. She was stuck in > Salem for quite a while. > > I still don't think it was as bad as the ice storm of 2004 - 2005 that kept > many of us trapped for a week or more. Mimi Stang > > > ==== ORFORUM Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe, send a message to [email protected] that > contains (in the body of the message) only the single word: unsubscribe > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > > > > --------------------------------- > Discover Yahoo! > Stay in touch with email, IM, photo sharing & more. Check it out! > > > ==== ORFORUM Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe, send a message to [email protected] that > contains (in the body of the message) only the single word: unsubscribe > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >

I remember the snow of 1950, too....I had forgotten all about it. We had just moved to Eugene and we walked 15 blocks to the Mayflower Theater on the UofO campus. John Wayne was starring in Iwo Jima. Mama wore longjohns under her circle skirt. The year of the 1969 is important because I am writing a little story for posterity. My son thought it was earlier and that threw me for a loop but others have confirmed that it was January, 1969. After counting on my fingers I have decided that I was right in the first place. I want to thank all of you who wrote to me about the Big Snow of 1969! Some of you were on the road and trying to get home....I can't imagine what that would have done to my nervous system! I did get stuck in Portland during the Christmas vacation in Dec. 1992. It started snowing a day or so after Christmas and then it all turned into an ice storm. Thank goodness I my mother-in-law in town so I had a roof over my head. I wasn't able to drive back to Eugene until Jan 2nd or 3rd. I still don't "do" ice!

We were living in John Day then. I remember two car loads of us headed back from work session in Corvallis. we were in first car, chained up, virtually one lane over Santiam snow was so deep. Santiam was closed soon after we passed through. Our partners did not get home that day However not sure that was '69. I remember '50 too, but that was more a cold snap if i recall right. 8 degrees in Toledo, whcih is real cold for coast, but not sure that was '50 but close give or take a year. i was in junior high Curious why year is important.

According to the website I found on the National Weather Service Forecast Office for Portland (which lists all the major snowstorms) the year was 1969 - January 25 - 31. Most of the valley floor got two to three feet of snow. Eugene got the incredible amount of forty-seven inches for the month of January, about thirty-four inches coming during this storm. Coos, Lane and Douglas had the most snow but Salem had about a foot too. I remember how awful it was - we had a young woman with us from Lebanon who drove a Volkswagon bug to a meeting in Salem. It was literally buried under a huge snowdrift on Front Street here in Salem and it was many days before she could get it out. A friend with chains on his car managed to bring her here and she stayed with us for quite a few days. She also could not drive her Volkswagon bug on the freeway back to Eugene because it would just get "high centered" because of the snow in the center of the tire tracks. She was stuck in Salem for quite a while. I still don't think it was as bad as the ice storm of 2004 - 2005 that kept many of us trapped for a week or more. Mimi Stang

1969 sounds right. I was a junior in high school. The Rose City buses stopped running before they let us out of school! To this day I don't remember snow that deep here in Portland. A neighbor boy met me halfway home with a sled and pulled me home! [email protected] wrote: According to the website I found on the National Weather Service Forecast Office for Portland (which lists all the major snowstorms) the year was 1969 - January 25 - 31. Most of the valley floor got two to three feet of snow. Eugene got the incredible amount of forty-seven inches for the month of January, about thirty-four inches coming during this storm. Coos, Lane and Douglas had the most snow but Salem had about a foot too. I remember how awful it was - we had a young woman with us from Lebanon who drove a Volkswagon bug to a meeting in Salem. It was literally buried under a huge snowdrift on Front Street here in Salem and it was many days before she could get it out. A friend with chains on his car managed to bring her here and she stayed with us for quite a few days. She also could not drive her Volkswagon bug on the freeway back to Eugene because it would just get "high centered" because of the snow in the center of the tire tracks. She was stuck in Salem for quite a while. I still don't think it was as bad as the ice storm of 2004 - 2005 that kept many of us trapped for a week or more. Mimi Stang ==== ORFORUM Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe, send a message to [email protected] that contains (in the body of the message) only the single word: unsubscribe ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx --------------------------------- Discover Yahoo! Stay in touch with email, IM, photo sharing & more. Check it out!

I didn't get anywhere googling the Oregonian or National Weather Service that far back. This is not what you are looking for but this website describes the 10 worst weather events of the 20th century in Oregon. http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/pqr/paststorms/index.php The 1950 snow storm is described but not 1968. I remember the 1950 one well. It was fun to trudge through knee deep snow some two or three miles to Roosevelt high just to find out school was closed. Of course the distance gets longer every time I think of that beautiful morning.<grin> Maggie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carole Hammond" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 7:42 PM Subject: [GFO] Big snow of 1968? > When was the big snow that dumped +3 feet of snow on the Willamette Valley in the late 1960s? I > was thinking it was in January of 1968. Or was it 1969? > > I've been Googling for it for the last hour and can't come up with it. > > Thanks, Carole > > > ==== ORFORUM Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe, send a message to [email protected] that > contains (in the body of the message) only the single word: unsubscribe > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx >

>When was the big snow that dumped +3 feet of snow on the Willamette >Valley in the late 1960s? I was thinking it was in January of 1968. >Or was it 1969? > >I've been Googling for it for the last hour and can't come up with it. > >Thanks, Carole I don't remember it being that much snow but in about 1964 we had snow and a silver thaw, and Christmas day our family spent in a hotel at Loyd center because the Columbia was in flood and at that time we were living on Hayden Island in a house trailer. Our neighbors trailer floated off its blocks and ours just barely got wet on the underside of the floor as we were a bit higher than them. Then in about 1970 I think it was we got another good snow and a bad silver thaw but that date is just a guess. The 64 one was our first year in Portland so I have something that keeps me straight on that year. We moved right after that to Beaverton, enough is enough my mother said. Then I met pop and we were married Dec. of 1965. Janice Janice M. Healy Co-compiler of "Oregon Burial Site Guide" Aloha, Oregon U.S.A. Mailto:[email protected] "Oregon Burial Site Guide" http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/obsg.html Plan ahead for the following conferences: NGS Conference 1-4 June 2005, Nashville Tennessee FGS Conference 9-10 Sept 2005, Salt Lake City Public service site http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ancestors.html

When was the big snow that dumped +3 feet of snow on the Willamette Valley in the late 1960s? I was thinking it was in January of 1968. Or was it 1969? I've been Googling for it for the last hour and can't come up with it. Thanks, Carole

For those of you that didn't get to go, the conference was great, lots of good classes, wonderful people, great food. I only had time for a few classes, but they were top notch. Ruth Bishop was awarded the Presidents Citation from the president of NGS for her many good works. Weather was warm, warmer and wet one or two days, with high humidity. But we didn't care as we were all busy inside learning so many great things. Saw Eileen Chamberlin, Connie and G. Lenzen from GFO and several others from Oregon. So glad they all were able to make it. We all came home with new books, lots of new info and new friends I am sure, I know that I did. Janice Janice M. Healy Co-compiler of "Oregon Burial Site Guide" Aloha, Oregon U.S.A. Mailto:[email protected] "Oregon Burial Site Guide" http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/obsg.html Plan ahead for the following conferences: NGS Conference 1-4 June 2005, Nashville Tennessee FGS Conference 9-10 Sept 2005, Salt Lake City Public service site http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ancestors.html

Charlie Caughlan and Don Final will be hosting this Saturday's Illinois Interest Group, on June 11, 2005. They will be presenting some exciting new software they have found that has a wide range of applications in not only sharing your genealogy information but much more. They say the applications of this software are endless! In addition they want to encourage participants to bring along some of the helpful discoveries they have found as they worked with computers and the internet that will be helpful to the group. If you do not have a computer, remember that your public library does. You can use it to research your genealogy! Now is a good time to begin learning some of the basic skills that will let you make use of the multitude of information on the 'Net. The Illinois Interest Group will be most willing to assist you to get started. Meet with Charlie and Don at 9:30 a.m. in the Higgins Room at the GFO Building. Questions? Write to Kristy at <[email protected]>

I already had a response many hours ago from the man who was looking for Walter Aho's death date. He writes a newsletter for a WWII Navy ship and was just looking to confirm the death date. He is not family and does not need any additional information. Mimi Stang

I found this 1930 Oregon Census on ANCESTRY.COM I can flip you a copy -- if you would like one. Please e-mail me at [email protected] Penelope Name: Walter Aho Age:0 Estimated birth year:abt 1926 Relation to head-of-house:Son Father's Name:Matthew Aho Mother's Name:Hannah Aho Home in 1930:Astoria, Clatsop, Oregon Family and neighbors:View Results Occupation:View Image Education:View Image Military service:View Image Rent/home value:View Image Age at first marriage:View Image Parents' birthplace:View Image Owned a radio:View Image Image source:Year: 1930; Census Place: Astoria, Clatsop, Oregon; Roll: 1941; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 18; Image: 255.0.

Here's your man: Walter Aho died 2 July 1987, Clatsop County, Certificate # 87-11436, Born 6 November 1929. From the Oregon Death Index on Ancestry.com. Mimi Stang

Could SKS check the OR Death Index for a possible death in about 1987? Name: Walter AHO Place of Death: Most likely CLATSOP County Year of Death: Thought to be 1987 Thanks in advance. Jim Gallagher

The Genealogical Forum of Oregon general membership meeting on Saturday, June 11, 2005 will feature Civil War reenactors appearing in costume and presenting life as seen by both Union and Confederate military during the war. We will meet at 2 pm in the Forum library, 1515 SE Gideon St., Portland, Oregon. New officers will be installed, the annual budget presented for approval and writing contest winners announced. Volunteers will be recognized. We hope you all will be on hand for this exciting program prepared for our enjoyment. So, come on-come all for the June 11th meeting. Patricia Burling Education Committee